Religion
In the context of religious and spiritual communities that may marginalize those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ), we explore how 11 women reconfigured potentially conflicting spiritual and... more
In the context of religious and spiritual communities that
may marginalize those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, or queer (LGBTQ), we explore how 11 women reconfigured
potentially conflicting spiritual and sexual/gender identities.
Interviews with women in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s
East coast, indicated some used faith traditions to try to change
themselves, but most found ways to disengage from or alter
their spiritual relationships. Many losses were entailed as women
rejected or were discarded by faith communities. In reconfiguring
their spiritual lives, women drew from former traditions, explored
new paths, and forged individual relationships to the spiritual.
may marginalize those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, or queer (LGBTQ), we explore how 11 women reconfigured
potentially conflicting spiritual and sexual/gender identities.
Interviews with women in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Canada’s
East coast, indicated some used faith traditions to try to change
themselves, but most found ways to disengage from or alter
their spiritual relationships. Many losses were entailed as women
rejected or were discarded by faith communities. In reconfiguring
their spiritual lives, women drew from former traditions, explored
new paths, and forged individual relationships to the spiritual.
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Processes of navigating intersections between spiritual/religious identity and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) identity are just beginning to be explicated. In-depth interviews with 35 LGBTQ adults from a range of... more
Processes of navigating intersections between spiritual/religious identity and lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) identity are just beginning to be explicated. In-depth
interviews with 35 LGBTQ adults from a range of backgrounds explore experiences with both
religion and spirituality. While not all participants experienced conflicts, the psychological and
emotional harms done to some participants through organized religion were extensive, and knew
no age boundaries. Disconnection from bodies and delayed sexual activity were common. Many
left formal religions; those who stayed distinguished between religious teachings and institutions,
and between religion and spirituality. Heightened knowledge of theology proved helpful to some.
Limitations and implications for counseling are discussed.
bisexual, transgender or queer (LGBTQ) identity are just beginning to be explicated. In-depth
interviews with 35 LGBTQ adults from a range of backgrounds explore experiences with both
religion and spirituality. While not all participants experienced conflicts, the psychological and
emotional harms done to some participants through organized religion were extensive, and knew
no age boundaries. Disconnection from bodies and delayed sexual activity were common. Many
left formal religions; those who stayed distinguished between religious teachings and institutions,
and between religion and spirituality. Heightened knowledge of theology proved helpful to some.
Limitations and implications for counseling are discussed.
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L´appresentazione del museo nella lezione di Barocco italiano.
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Following the death of 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen who committed suicide after forced “conversion therapy,” President Barack Obama called for a nationwide ban on psychotherapy aimed at changing sexual orientation or... more
Following the death of 17-year-old Leelah Alcorn, a transgender teen who committed suicide after forced “conversion therapy,” President Barack Obama called for a nationwide ban on psychotherapy aimed at changing sexual orientation or gender identity. The administration argued that because conversion therapy causes substantial psychological harm to minors, it is neither medically nor ethically appropriate. We fully agree with the President and believe that this is a step in the right direction. Of course, in addition to being unsafe as well as ethically unsound, current conversion therapy approaches aren’t actually effective at doing what they claim to do – changing sexual orientation. But we also worry that this may be a short-term legislative solution to what is really a conceptual problem. The question we ought to be asking is “what will happen if and when scientists do end up developing safe and effective technologies that can alter sexual orientation?”
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Research Interests: Religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Latin American Studies, Philosophy, and 20 moreMetaphysics, Ethics, Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Theology, Poetry, Cuban Studies, African Diaspora Studies, West Africa, Shamanism, Brazil, Afterlife studies, Nigeria, Candomblé, Ifa-Orisa/Orisha Tradition in Africa and the Diaspora, Yoruba, Kamma and Rebirth, Lucumi, and Santeria Cubana
This paper is an (unpublished) literature review of three books on the Taíno, which focuses on their political, social, and religious life. This review is primarily concerned with identifying features of these works' significance for the... more
This paper is an (unpublished) literature review of three books on the Taíno, which focuses on their political, social, and religious life. This review is primarily concerned with identifying features of these works' significance for the ethnographic study of religion and society in the Caribbean today. The three books under review are Irving Rouse's The Tainos: Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus; William F. Keegan's Taíno Indian Myth and Practice: The Arrival of the Stranger King; and Fatima Bercht, Estrellita Brodsky, John A. Farmer, and Dicey Taylor (eds.) for Museo del Barrio's collection Taíno: Pre-Columbian Art and Culture from the Caribbean.
Research Interests: Religion, Ethnohistory, Latin American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean History, Ethnography, and 17 moreHybridity, Migration, Caribbean History, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Encounters, Taíno, Migration Studies, Puerto Rico, Caribbean Archaeology, Taino symbolism and culture especially in relation to ornithology, Latin American Religion, Taino Cultural and Linguistic Revival, Interested In Taino Culture, Colonial Encounters, Taino Indians, Taíno Cosmology, and Ancient Migrations
It is in the grand narrative of human history that we find a universal disposition to use spirituality as a form of understanding man’s role and purpose in the physical universe. From as far back as the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, and to... more
It is in the grand narrative of human history that we find a universal disposition to use spirituality as a form of understanding man’s role and purpose in the physical universe. From as far back as the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, and to our present-day post-modernity, we have records, documents and historical evidences that help affirm mankind’s obsession with the religious. The Babylonians had their tales and their gods, the Egyptians had their beliefs of the after-life, the Greeks had their Mount Olympus, even modern-day civilizations boast a diversity of religious beliefs across the globe. The Western world has experienced the rise of Christianity, witnessing the growing population of Islam, and studying the resurgence of Judaism. The Eastern world has featured its own various forms of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and many others which now permeate into the West. To list humanity’s religious beliefs, from past to present, would delve into the thousands if not millions.
Various studies have been conducted on the world’s major religions, even on ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, and they all exhibit this universal disposition, religious belief as a form of understanding man’s role and significance in the material world. However, studies on Mesoamerican civilizations are scarce on this front, and not easily made available to the public. What can the Mesoamerican civilizations tell us about religious belief and humanity’s role in the cosmos? What type of religious and social values do we discover from a time and place which remained untouched from direct external influences, prior to Spanish colonization?
Various studies have been conducted on the world’s major religions, even on ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, and they all exhibit this universal disposition, religious belief as a form of understanding man’s role and significance in the material world. However, studies on Mesoamerican civilizations are scarce on this front, and not easily made available to the public. What can the Mesoamerican civilizations tell us about religious belief and humanity’s role in the cosmos? What type of religious and social values do we discover from a time and place which remained untouched from direct external influences, prior to Spanish colonization?
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Research Interests: Religion, Cultural Studies, Latin American Studies, Earth Sciences, Anthropology, and 20 moreMythology, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Latin American and Caribbean History, Theology, Poetry, Cuban Studies, African Diaspora Studies, West Africa, History of Plague, Folk legends, Brazil, Paganism, Nigeria, Medicine, Nature, Candomblé, Miracles, Yoruba, and Santeria Cubana
Ein Artikel über die "schamanischen" Ursprünge des Religiösen (Connection Magazin Schamanismus Extra)
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RESUMO: Desde os primórdios que o homem busca estabelecer um caminho ao qual denomina de verdade adjetivando-a de absoluta. Dogmatizando-a, nominou de religião. O questionamento a esta estrutura dogmática vem sempre presente no cerne de... more
RESUMO: Desde os primórdios que o homem busca estabelecer um caminho ao qual denomina de verdade adjetivando-a de absoluta. Dogmatizando-a, nominou de religião. O questionamento a esta estrutura dogmática vem sempre presente no cerne de batalhas e guerras ao longo da vida humana. O objetivo deste não reside no fato de explicar, muito menos resolver, o motivo/motivação do homem a lutar em Nome de Deus ou da religião. Estabelecemos como norte a discussão presente na existência da intolerância religiosa como elemento de violação aos Direitos Humanos. Neste sentido, o texto procura respostas perpassando por temas que se conectam como: a intolerância religiosa e a verdade absoluta; os direitos humanos e a importância do respeito ao multiculturalismo; a cidadania, solidariedade e a cooperação como elementos fundamentais na estrutura democrática e os signos constitucionais como possibilidade de consolidação de múltiplas identidades em um sistema constitucional. Procura ainda entender o que tem levado violência e religião enquanto elementos construtores de conflitos entre os homens. O texto finaliza com uma aproximação de que a intolerância religiosa tende a ser um dos grandes males da humanidade, aniquilando a liberdade e a autonomia do outro e caminhando de forma divergente à construção de ambientes plurais e democráticos.
Palavras-Chave: intolerância religiosa; liberdade de expressão; direitos humanos; fundamentalismo - alteridade
ABSTRACT: Since early days, men seek to establish a path that calls truth, adding at it the attribute "absolute". When they had dogmatized the so called truth, then emerged religion. The questioning of this dogmatic structure has ever been present at the heart of battles and wars throughout human life. Its objective do not reside in explaining, much less resolving, the reason / motivation of men to fight in the name of God or religion. The main point is the existent discussion about religious intolerance as part of violation of human rights. In this sense, the paper seeks answers by encompassing interconnect topics such as religious intolerance and absolute truth; human rights and the importance of respect for multiculturalism; citizenship, solidarity and cooperation as key elements in the democratic structure and constitutional signs as a possibility for consolidation of multiple identities in a constitutional system. It also seeks to understand what had led violence and religion to become building blocks of conflicts among men. The text ends with an approach that religious intolerance tends to be one of the great evils of humanity, annihilating the freedom and autonomy of the other and moving in oposite ways in relation the construction of plural and democratic environments.
Key-words: Religious intolerance; freedom of expression; human rights; fundamentalism - otherness
Palavras-Chave: intolerância religiosa; liberdade de expressão; direitos humanos; fundamentalismo - alteridade
ABSTRACT: Since early days, men seek to establish a path that calls truth, adding at it the attribute "absolute". When they had dogmatized the so called truth, then emerged religion. The questioning of this dogmatic structure has ever been present at the heart of battles and wars throughout human life. Its objective do not reside in explaining, much less resolving, the reason / motivation of men to fight in the name of God or religion. The main point is the existent discussion about religious intolerance as part of violation of human rights. In this sense, the paper seeks answers by encompassing interconnect topics such as religious intolerance and absolute truth; human rights and the importance of respect for multiculturalism; citizenship, solidarity and cooperation as key elements in the democratic structure and constitutional signs as a possibility for consolidation of multiple identities in a constitutional system. It also seeks to understand what had led violence and religion to become building blocks of conflicts among men. The text ends with an approach that religious intolerance tends to be one of the great evils of humanity, annihilating the freedom and autonomy of the other and moving in oposite ways in relation the construction of plural and democratic environments.
Key-words: Religious intolerance; freedom of expression; human rights; fundamentalism - otherness
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J.S. Mill's critical examination of Comte's system, revised and updated. Grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been revised in accordance with current American practice.
Research Interests: Religion, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Sociology, Political Sociology, and 27 moreSocial Theory, Anthropology, Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science, Humanities, History of Ideas, Social Sciences, Methodology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Science, Political Science, History of Social Sciences, Philosophy of History, Philosophy of Social Science, Secularization, Social and Political Philosophy, John Stuart Mill, Epistemology of the Social Sciences, Ciências Sociais, Positivism, Auguste Comte, Humanities and Social Sciences, Classical sociology, History of Philosophy, and Social Science
L'antica processione di S.Antioco dalla cattedrale di S.Chiara in Iglesias al santuario di S.Antioco nell'isola omonima attraverso i toponimi citati nei miracoli raccolti dagli scrittori del '600 e nelle carte del XIX secolo
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Research Interests: Religion, Comics Studies, Comic Book Studies, Comics, Comics/Sequential Art, and 4 moreComics and Graphic Novels, Critical Theory, Deconstruction, Graphic Narrative, Comics, Latin American Literature, Film Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Comic books, and English Literature, Graphic Novels, Comics Studies, Manga Studies, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Visual Culture
History of the Image & Memory of Asia in Romanian Culture
[PhD, French ToC], 2003.
[PhD, French ToC], 2003.
Research Interests: Religion, European History, Asian Studies, European Studies, Indian studies, and 18 moreHistoriography, South Asian Studies, Eastern European history, Romanian Studies, History of Historiography, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Mircea Eliade, Oriental Studies, Nicolae Milescu, Moses Gaster, Dimitrie Cantemir, Arion Thomas Rosu, Johann Martin Honigberger, Arion Roșu, Hasdeu, Constantin D. Georgian, and Gheorghe Popescu-Ciocănel
The Enneagram and Centering Prayer are explored as tools for transformation of the Shadow Archetype. An attempt is made to demonstrate that the Enneagram can be used to uncover shadow qualities of personal unconscious motivations and... more
The Enneagram and Centering Prayer are explored as tools for transformation of the Shadow Archetype. An attempt is made to demonstrate that the Enneagram can be used to uncover shadow qualities of personal unconscious motivations and deeply rooted influences and prejudices of a dysfunctional nature. Through the consistent practice of Center Prayer (over an extended period of time) these dysfunctional qualities are brought into full consciousness and transformed into positive motivations, influences, attitudes, and behaviors. Existing literature, the author’s personal journey, and independent research assist in demonstrating the effectiveness of these powerful tools.
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, and 24 morePersonality Psychology, Positive Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychiatry, Personality, Mental Health, Motivation (Psychology), Depression, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Educational Psychology, Mindfulness, Early Christianity, Jungian psychology, Prayer, Mysticism, Jungian and post-Jungian psychology, Theories Of Personality, Meditation, Enneagram, Contemplative Prayer, and Ken Wilber, Integral Theory, Humanistic Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology
Svjesnost i promišljanje su odlike čovjekova bića koje mu daju prednost i razlikuju ga od ostalih stvorenja. Čovjek je svjestan svoje pozicije i što je osvještenije i budniji utoliko je i njegova pozicija čovječnosti uzvišenija. Ili kako... more
Svjesnost i promišljanje su odlike čovjekova bića koje mu daju prednost i razlikuju ga od ostalih stvorenja. Čovjek je svjestan svoje pozicije i što je osvještenije i budniji utoliko je i njegova pozicija čovječnosti uzvišenija. Ili kako bi kazao Mevlana, čovjek je sav od misli i promišljanja a ostatak su samo koža i hrpa kostiju. Promišljanje daje pečat čovjekovu životu i usmjeravah ga na kreiranje kultura i civilizacija. Stoga je promišljanje posebna osobnost čovjeka koja za rezultat ima proizvodnju sredstava proizvodnje, znanja i stvaranje civilizacije. Pitanje je ovdje kako ljudi na individualnoj i društvenoj ravni mogu ostvariti napredak i prosperitet?
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SURAH MARYAM (MARY)
in the Qur'an.
M.Sci. Hakkı YILMAZ
in the Qur'an.
M.Sci. Hakkı YILMAZ
Research Interests: Religion, Christianity, History, Sociology, Psychology, and 27 moreSocial Psychology, Islamic Law, Constitutional Law, Anthropology, International Relations, Philosophy of Science, Humanities, Social Sciences, Science Education, History of Christianity, International Law, Human Rights, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Science, Political Science, Early Christianity, Human Resource Management, Social Media, Christology, Islamic Studies, Islamic History, Islam, Virgin Mary, Antropología, Mary Magdalene, Prophets of the Hebrew Bible/"Old Testament", and Biography of the Prophet Muhammad
Esse pequeno livreto é uma adapatação de uma sérire de mensagens pregadas na Igreja Nova Aliança, Filadelfia, Paraguai. Ele tem como objetivo esclarecer algumas dúvidas com respeito às leis do AT. Qual a importância dessas Leis... more
Esse pequeno livreto é uma adapatação de uma sérire de mensagens pregadas na Igreja Nova Aliança, Filadelfia, Paraguai. Ele tem como objetivo esclarecer algumas dúvidas com respeito às leis do AT. Qual a importância dessas Leis atualmente? Ainda devemos obedecer-las? Todas? Algumas? Quais? Se você também procura respostas a essas perguntas, continue lendo.